Postage stamps ephemera. Box 9.
- Ephemera
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Description
Box file containing postage stamps, first day covers and postmarks on medical subjects in acid free sleeves. Stamps are dated with Stanley Gibbons number (where possible). Countries are: Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands New Guinea, Nevis, New Caledonia, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway. Includes New Zealand health stamps up to 1974. Includes stamps about the Plunket Society, medicinal plants, smoking, braille, children's health camps and services, health services (Namibia, Niger), the British royal family, children's welfare and survival, blood transfusion, the hospital ship J. Henry Dunant, jellyfish, crabs, cancer, cows, wheelchair access, dental inspection, malnutrition, drug abuse, family planning, pregnancy, disability, Louis Pasteur, smallpox vaccination, water supply and sanitation, AIDS, S. Myers & Co. (dentsists, christchurch, New Zealand, on back of 1882 one penny stamp).
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Subjects
- Red Cross
- Malariaprevention & control
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonaryprevention & control
- Health Promotion
- Sports
- Leprosy
- Vaccination
- Contraception
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Disabled Persons
- Netherlands
- Papua (Indonesia)
- New Zealand
- Dunant, Henry, 1828-1910.
- Hansen, G. Armauer (Gerhard Armauer), 1841-1912.
- King, Truby, 1858-1938.
- Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895.
- Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965.
- Plunket Society
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- St. John Ambulance (England)
- World Health Organization
- Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesEPH718